On the Application of Corpus of Contemporary American English in Vocabulary Instruction

Yusu, Xu

doi:10.5539/ies.v7n8p68

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“…In the academic writing landscape, Gilmore (2009) and Hegelheimer (2006) unveiled that the majority of the students positively perceived the incorporation of Corpus inasmuch as it enabled them to discover errors in the use of the lexicogrammatical choices independently and to use authentic English. The application of Corpus in L2 classroom has also enriched the students' vocabulary (i.e., Bridle, 2019;Yusu, 2014). Both studies unveiled that it could enrich the students' English vocabulary.…”

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confidence: 96%

“…Corpus has gained its popularity as a learning resource and approach in ESL and EFL contexts since 1987, marked by the emergence of the dictionary-based Corpus, Collins Cobuild (Gabrielatos, 2005). It was empirically proven to promote writing skills (Gilmore, 2009;Hegelheimer, 2006); Vocabulary (Yusu, 2014); or Grammar (Bridle, 2019;Zareva, 2017), not to mention its theoretical discussion pertinent to the nature of Corpus, the what, how and why it is incorporated into ELT classroom. In the academic writing landscape, Gilmore (2009) and Hegelheimer (2006) unveiled that the majority of the students positively perceived the incorporation of Corpus inasmuch as it enabled them to discover errors in the use of the lexicogrammatical choices independently and to use authentic English.…”

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Flipped Classroom-Based Corpus for EFL Grammar Instruction: Outcomes and Perceptions

Khusniyah¹,

Husnawadi²

2022

WJEL

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Although a wide array of studies has sufficiently documented the use of Flipped and Corpus learning methods in ELT context respectively, marrying both in EFL grammar classes remains scanty. To fill this gap, this collaborative action research (CAR) jointly designed and implemented flipped classroom-based corpus instruction involving an English grammar instructor to promote the EFL students’ grammatical knowledge and documented their perceptions on how the learning model promoted their grammatical knowledge and the challenges they encountered at an Indonesian state Islamic University. Pre-, mid- and post-tests measuring the students’ grammatical knowledge were administered, and an open-ended questionnaire and focus group discussion were respectively distributed and conducted to garner the qualitative evidence. The statistical evidence showed that there were statistically and practically significant grammatical knowledge gains at the end of the term. The qualitative evidence suggested that it was due to the adequacy of English input and feedbacks from their peers and the grammar instructor. The students also perceived that low internet bandwidth and a lack of understanding on the use of the Coca database were their primary learning barriers, while the grammar instructor found it more daunting to cater the instruction. This is the first study marrying both the pedagogical methods and provides the empirical evidence of its efficacy and feasibility for EFL grammar instruction. Limitations and recommendations for further studies are discussed.

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Section: Previous Studies On Corpus In Elt Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Flipped Classroom-Based Corpus for EFL Grammar Instruction: Outcomes and Perceptions

Khusniyah¹,

Husnawadi²

2022

WJEL

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“…Corpus of Contemporary American English was created by Mark Davies and has more than 500 million words in American English corpus. According to Yusu (2014), Corpus of Contemporary American English has been available online since 2008 and is the largest free English corpus and has significant advantages over the other free online corpus in terms of vocabulary studies. Corpus of Contemporary American English has more than one billion words on texts, such as…”

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The Meaning of the Word ‘Cry’ on Corpus of Contemporary American English: Syntactic and Semantic Study

Fitriyani

Nugraha

2021

ejlutama

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This research title is “The Meaning of The Word ‘Cry’ on Corpus of Contemporary American English: Syntactic and Semantic Study”. The purposes of this research are to analyze the syntactic category and to analyze the meaning of the word ‘cry’ on Corpus of Contemporary American English. The methods used in this research are distributional method to analyze the syntactic category and identity method to analyze the meaning of the word ‘cry’. The steps for the research are collect the data which is the sentence that has the word ‘cry’ on Corpus of Contemporary American English, then analyze the syntactic category and the meaning of the word ‘cry’. The data source is the sentence that has the word ‘cry’ on the Corpus of Contemporary American English website. The theoretical basis used in identifying syntactic categories are O'Grady's (1993) theory and Chaer's (1994) theory to identify the types of meanings The results showed that out of 32 data that have been analyzed, the lexical category was obtained, namely 25 verb data (78.12%) and 7 noun data (21.87%). Meanwhile, the types of meanings found are 11 data of lexical meaning and grammatical meaning (34.37%), 10 data of contextual meaning (31.25%), 8 data of lexical meaning (25%), 2 data of contextual meaning and grammatical meaning (6.25%), and 1 data of connotative meaning (3.12%).

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“…There are many researchers do their research based on COCA, as Baker argued that corpus linguistics enables the researchers' cognitive and social biases to be reduced due to the fact that none is impossible to claim to be absolutely objective about a piece of research (Baker, 1996). Relating to COCA, Yusu mentioned that four aspect aspects of vocabulary instruction, such as part of speech, collocation, morphology and word comparison could be obtained from COCA (Yusu, 2014). In addition, Jones & Waller defined corpus as searchable texts that could be spoken or written electronically.…”

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Portraying the Word “Tourism” in English

Sujatna¹,

Heriyanto²,

Krisnawati³

et al. 2020

Sosiohumaniora

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Now days, tourism is counted as a large industry that could support the government income. Since tourism is important, it was essential to promote it by online and offline media. Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) was claimed as a large corpus of language is the source of the data taken in this paper. The aims of the research are, firstly, to describe the distribution of the word “tourism” in COCA since 1990 up to 2019 including its text genres and secondly, to describe the pair of the word “tourism” in COCA since 1990 up to 2019 including its context. The research designed implemented is a mixed-method design, in which quantitative and qualitative approaches are combined. It was reported, firstly, from 9833 corpus containing the word “tourism” found in COCA, the highest number is newspaper followed by academy, magazine, spoken, web, fiction, blog, TV, and movie. Secondly, from the highest number to the smallest number of the subtypes of the word tourism are related to nature, culture, animal, place, sport, history, prostitution, health, religion, science, memory, crime, movie, and charity.

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On the Application of Corpus of Contemporary American English in Vocabulary Instruction

Cited by 9 publications

References 4 publications

Flipped Classroom-Based Corpus for EFL Grammar Instruction: Outcomes and Perceptions

Flipped Classroom-Based Corpus for EFL Grammar Instruction: Outcomes and Perceptions

The Meaning of the Word ‘Cry’ on Corpus of Contemporary American English: Syntactic and Semantic Study

Portraying the Word “Tourism” in English

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